October 3, 2017
Diversity and Inclusion
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The late American poet and essayist Adrienne Rich compared education to a mirror, and asked the question, what happens "when someone with the authority of the teacher describes our society and you are not in it?" This kind of experience she said, can be disorienting: "A moment of psychic disequilibrium as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing."1
1 Adrienne Rich quoted in the Irish Times
Today, we all share a goal to ensure that when students look into the mirror that the education system holds before them, they see reflected the diversity and values of our broad society.
Read more of this speech by Emily Logan, Chief Commissioner, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.